TRADE AND NAVIGATION ACCOUNTS . FOR THE MONTH AND TWO

MONTHS ENDED 29m FERRHARY 1856 AND 1855.

ExPoars.

Declared value of British

Month ended Feb. 29, 1856. 1855.

£ £

Two Months ended Feb. 29, 1856. £ 1855. £

Manufactures, 8re

7,725,747 .. 5,032,416 .... 15,700,533 .. 11,497,212 Of these exports the following are items :

Cotton Manufactures : enter-

ed per yard 1,953,467 .. 1,701,618 .... 4,000,929 .. 3,820,839 Cotton Yarn 658,696 249,085 .... 1,237,508 .. 652,897 Haberdashery and Millinery. 252,441

540,422 .. 327,706 Hardwares and Cutlery 220,389 174,173 .... 490,764 .. 404,528 Linen Manufactures: entered

per yard 319,705 .. 248,436 .... 689,472 .. 511,481

Linen -Yarn

100,037 .. 33,625 .... 193,536 .. 90,664 Machinery and Mill-work:

Steam-Engines 67,194 .. 66,747 .... 124,750 .. 120,598 Ditto : of all other sorts 105,045 ..

197,285 .. 124,773 Iron : Pig 59,201 ..

113,621 .. 99,764 Bar, Bolt, and Rod 383,741 ..

750,979 .. 418,955 Wrought of all sorts 250,273 .. 101,162 .... 408,058 .. 258,601

Copper : Sheet, Nails, 8r.c. . .

133,320 .. 49,468 .... 247,285 .. 137,985 Silk : Manufactures and Yarn

102,237 ..

91,946 .... 376,636 .. 184,215 Woollens : entered by the

piece 200,759 .. 167,179 .... 439,412 .. 327,457 entered by the yard 210,609 .. 131,264 .... 474,959 .. 287,161 Worsted stuffs Woollen yarn 196,776 ..

176,305 .. 37,155 398,085 ..

.... 372,868 .. 212,219 113,673

IMPOSTS.

The following are items : Month ended Feb. 29,

Animals : Oxen and . Bulls number 1,924 1,728 ....

CCoalwvses 103 „

If 403

Sheep „ 325 Lambs - ....

Swine Pl. ."--- 3, 79 Corn : Wheat 73,221 ....

Barley qrs. 194,111

„ 12,370 5,002

Oats 52,231 32,967 3,379

Peas and Beans 7, 19,981 ....

Indian Corner Maize „ 133,806 77,420 Wheat-meal or Flour cwts. 224,607 .. 104,974 ....

Provisions: Bacon „ 8,466 .. 13,636 .... Beef: salted „ 21,939.. 12,394 Pork : salted „ 5,940 .. 14,087 Butter „ 26,724 .. 18,259 Cheese ,, .. 7,630

Eggs number 8,437,400 .. 4,650,800

Coffee lbs. 1,886,538 .. 595,641 Tea 10,395,024 .. 2,15,5,311 Sugar : Unrefined .evqs. 428,701 .. 112,383 Refined (Foreign). „ 19,615 .. 2,509 Wine gallons. 231,482 .. 204,425 Cotton : Raw cwts. 783,044 .. 302,351 Flax : Undressed „ 38,411 .. 15,428 Wool: Sheep and

Lambs' lbs. 3,024,853 .. 853,726 HOYE CONSUME/log : (entered for)

Coffee lbs. 2,715,759 .. 3,233,449 Tea 4,623,273 .. 4,716,605 Sugar: Unrefined.cwts. 373,213 .. 551,940 Wine gallons. 580,578 .. 424,171

Two Months ended Feb. 29, 1856. 1855.

3,413 .. 4,686 257 . • 986 885 • • 1,631 2,495 . • 5,812

• -• .. -

85 • . 21 401,711 , • 374,790

.... 34,823 • • 40,883 .... 123,117 .. 9696:193

90,663..

.... 291,429 • . 138,193 412,829 .. 235,595 8,503 .. 14,240 .... 28,586.. 24,223 .... 8,595 .. 22,471 .... 55,133 .. 43,413 .... 39,968 .. 27,739 .... 13,821,200 .. 9,401,200 .... 2,173,951 .. 2,275,074 .... 12,519,838 .. 4,781,931 .... 596,267 .. 215,830 .... 42,674 .. 13,357 .... 375,338 .. 491,698 .... 1,072,926 .. 480,986 .... 56,869 .. 34,003 .... 4,339,712 .. 2,124,738 .... 6,853,749 .. 6,657,708 .... 14,047,413 .. 9,913,386 .... 692,670 .. 1,223,997 .... 1,190,874 .. 945,422

Sailing and Steam Vessels-Month ended Feb. SG,

1056. 1855.

SHIPPING. Vessels. Tonnage. Vessels. Tonnage

Foreign Trade : Inwards. 1,472 .. 402,029 .... 1,299.. 443,619 Outwards 2,374 .. 604,304 .... 1,344 351,884 Coasting Trade: Inwards. 9,451 .. 924,963 7,177 .. T19,098 Outwards 10,457 .. 992,677 7,755 .. 78L412

The accounts just published for the month ending the 29th February, and from which the preceding table is compiled, exhibit a striking in- crease in the declared value of the exports compared with the corre- sponding period of 1855. The increase on the month is nearly 2,700,0001.; and for the first two months of the year (January and February) the ex- cess is 4,200,000/. This restores matters to the position in which they stood at the beginning of 1854, such difference as exists being in favour of the present year. Compared with the two months of 1855, the largest increase occurs under the heads of cottons and cotton yarns (800,0000, linens and linen yarns (300,0001.), iron (500,0000, copper (100,0000, silks (200,0001.), woollens (750,0001.) The imports for the month show a large increase in bread-stuffs, par- ticularly wheat and wheat-flour. Eggs are doubled. Tea has increased fivefold, coffee and sugar threefold ; raw cotton is more than doubled, and sheep's wool is nearly quadrupled.